Tickets & Events

Boston Pops

Join the Boston Pops in a performance filled with holiday music
favorites, the traditional Pops sing-a-long, and even a visit from
jolly old Santa Claus with special kids' matinee performances which
include post-concert photos with Santa. Special post-Christmas
concerts feature screenings of the 30th anniversary of an
unforgettable movie classic, Back to the Future, with live
orchestral accompaniment, and New Year's Eve with the Boston Pops
Swing Orchestra and bandleader Bo Winiker. Don't miss the most
popular seasonal tradition around. Order your tickets today!

Featured Performers

Having celebrated his twentieth anniversary as Boston Pops
Conductor in 2015, Keith Lockhart is the second longest-tenured
conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra since its founding in 1885.
He has conducted more than 1,800 Boston Pops concerts, most of
which have taken place during the orchestra's spring and holiday
seasons in Boston's historic Symphony Hall. Mr. Lockhart has also
led annual Boston Pops appearances at Tanglewood, 42 national tours
to 146 cities in 35 states, and four international tours to Japan
and Korea. He and the Pops have participated in such high-profile
sporting events as Super Bowl XXXVI, the 2008 NBA finals, the 2013
Boston Red Sox Ring Ceremony, and the Red Sox Opening Day game at
Fenway Park in 2009.

Mr. Lockhart has led eight albums on the RCA Victor/BMG Classics
label, including two-The Celtic Album and The Latin
Album-that earned Grammy nominations. Recent releases on
Boston Pops Recordings include The Red Sox Album, A
Boston Pops Christmas-Live from Symphony Hall, and The
Dream Lives On: A Portrait of the Kennedy Brothers, which was
a Boston Pops commission premiered in 2010 during the orchestra's
125th season. Released at the beginning of the 2017 Pops season,
Lights, Camera…Music! Six Decades of John Williams
features Keith Lockhart leading the Boston Pops in a collection of
Williams's compositions from the 1960s onward, some of which can be
considered rarities.

In addition to occupying the Julian and Eunice Cohen Boston Pops
Conductor chair, Keith Lockhart currently serves as principal
conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra in London, which he led in
the June 2012 Diamond Jubilee Concert for Queen Elizabeth II, and
as artistic director of the Brevard Music Center summer institute
and festival in North Carolina. Prior to his BBC appointment, he
spent eleven years as music director of the Utah Symphony, which he
led at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City. He has
appeared as a guest conductor with virtually every major symphonic
ensemble in North America, as well as several in Asia and Europe.
Prior to coming to Boston, he was the associate conductor of both
the Cincinnati Symphony and Cincinnati Pops orchestras, as well as
music director of the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. Born in
Poughkeepsie, NY, Keith Lockhart began his musical studies with
piano lessons at the age of seven. He holds degrees from Furman
University and Carnegie Mellon University, and honorary doctorates
from several American universities.

Perhaps the most significant key to Keith Lockhart's success is
his ability to connect passionately with audiences through his
engaging programs, his commitment to speaking directly from the
stage with fascinating insights into the music, and his inherent
understanding of the importance of what sets the Pops experience
apart from a traditional orchestra concert-an atmosphere of
music-making that is both fun and entertaining for music lovers of
all ages.